So finally winter has broken. THe nice weather is her, and looks like it is here to stay. There have been a few things happening lately, nothing too particularly exciting. The new job is actually enjoyable, which I have not been able to find in a while, as far as a full time gig anyhow. I have been enjoying the part time job for a while, that one is mostly just mindless working so that should not make too much of a difference to most people, and those of us that need some time to think are afforded that when you spend several hours a day driving around. I no longer have to deal with answering people’s questions about computers and what they are doing wrong with them for my occupation. I can finally get back to enjoying dealing with a computer and using one at work as nothing more than a tool.

I have come to win my second Pinewood derby of the year, which I must say was quite enjoyable, more so than the last. I know it was more fun because of the people, having more people around as well as more people participating makes the whole day more fun. Unfortunately, I was not able to finish my car prior to the race due to a paint malfunction the day before. I hope to finish off the paint job one of these days, but for now I am enjoying having some time where I am not constantly working on something, and I no have black dust come out when I blow my nose. There was a good deal of good natured ribbing amongst the participants, which I am happy to emphasize again, I beat them all. There was even a cameo from my dear brother and an old co-worker as well. I wish I could tell people the secret to building a better car, but I really dont know if I have that answer. pictures are available on my brother’s gallery here.

Well I would like to say that I have had more time to do what I would like, just free time to BS around, unfortunately I have not really. This past week I managed to get working into a new job, training at this job anyhow. It looks like it may very well be something that I will enjoy, all I can truly say for sure is that I am most definately glad to not be taking calls and support email from people with stupid computer problems. Better than anything was the change to not be taking stupid computer questions from China. More interviews and opportunities seem to be making themselves available, which is cool, but again a bit odd that it will work this way. Everything becomes available after I start in on a new project. The pay is pretty good, I still get my benefits, and there are some darn pretty cool perks. Though I will eventually be moving to 2nd shift weekend, I will be working my entire week in 3 12 hour shifts, the other job during the week, it will be nice tos pread out the 60-70 hours of work.

The pinewood is coming along, and should be finished by the weekend, I look forward to finishing off this project. I also want to be able to get back to the Wright Flyer I have sitting in progress. Perhaps tacklet this old Aviatik berg project that I need to finish, which has been sitting around for a few years. Maybe even get a few lasering ideas I have in. Only time will tell.

It is amazing what people will do.

DIY Laser Engraved Toast

Well this about does it, I have been debating what to do for my next PC. I know that I most probably wont make any big step right now, but it is a nice bold move of Apple to decide to support running Windows on its intel hardware. I can’t say that this is particularly surprising, but good to see. Makes it more logical to make the switch to the Dark Side. If I can replace my old 1.4 T-bird with a Mac Mini, and still be able to run XP, I would have to say that I am happy. I guess the only thing I would really need to do would be to upgrade the ram and make a purchase. I wonder if this install would work with a homebrewed, er …. rather a slipstreamed copy of XPSP2.

Apple - Boot Camp

Well somehow I seem to be back at it again. If it wasn’t too bad what I have been doing for a while, workign the crazy hours and trying to pay off the expenses and whatnot. I figured this was going to be a rather unpleasant week, knowing that I had to cover several hours for Betsy. I can easily enough handle 15 hours a day, but bumping that up to be a total of 27 hours in a 32 hour period is wearing me thin. I can’t seem to keep the coherent thoughts together for a while, so no guarantees how this will turn out. I know I will find time to sleep soon, and hopefully I will still be able to get up for the job.

Otherwise it is exciting that we have had some success from the Discovery Channel Team in some of the most recent UCI events. More exciting of course was the fact that the World Series banner has been raised at US. Cellular Field, and the White Sox have started off this new season with decent win over the Indians. After a lengthy delay, there were some heroics from the newest Sox slugger. Enough of this for now. I need to look up soemthign on the web, but I can’t remember what.